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A good video camera (camcorder) is the best, but if on low budget, webcams are the way to go. One stopmotion program that is free is SMA or Stop Motion Animator. Bluescreen is a pretty hard technique. You film everything with a blue or green screen behind it. THen in an editing program, you delete the blue or green and then replace with your own background. For ocean scenes ou can just have a blue background that'll work.

I have a few. Pasteing each frame in the background will take a looooong time. Usually, what'd I do is I would save the animation clips to a filmstrip file. Then opening it in Photoshop, delete the background in the clips, then set backgrounds, I think it's easier to do this. Everything else sounds *y* to me :-) .

They don't. But I want them to be. Anyway, I'll see if I can get an example for Mr.Tiber soon (video) , who seems to not have posted in this thread?

X-O I am so jealous of you now, but also notice yous spent $500 on these, so, it's fair *wink*. Good buy. I shall await your encridebly large army displayed soon!!

Nice tree *y* . Though, mine isn't quite complete yet. 8-

Aren't these doors lovely? You could use them door holders sticking in, but I think only if you us a 1x2 plate with one stud in the middle?

A Transmission From A Prisoner: Hello, apparently I get one call, which is not very usefull. So I learned that I'm aboard Veer's ship being shipped to some one an...The Imperial Prison Calls Are Short So As Not Much Can Happen Now, GoodBye

I count 14 cannons :capn: . Poor Unpredicable, it was incredibly unpredicable that it'd sink ;-) .

No, I don't think there are any pirate references in the game, maybe in the race game, but I don't think there are any.

OOOoooOOOOh. Thanks Vader and Mutely. These are pretty! And we get a closeup of the AT-ST gunners gun. Which I don't think we've seen before *sweet* . Though, one seater at-st STILL! :-( At least it's roomy :-) The new top gun for the y-wing looks really cool. Though, is it me, or is the rebel helmet, different?

It was too much for me then. I'm still getting into this, which is why my first(well next as I have done some before) project I plan is to be big. I have done much practice to get the right animation for future movies. Also I dropped out because it was 8 in the morning and I was tired X-D

Or maybe is it that they want to cloack themselves as merchants, and not pirates to fool their prey.

Yes, SMA is quite hard. I sometimes find it frustrating, as I do it alot. I attemtpted a 24 hour contest before but dropped out. MOW for sure was a great movie and I'm sure inspired quite a few. Bonaparte, with your army, my oh my, you could have some great stuff there. Mr. Tiber, General animation itself is done in many ways. First you need a camera and a stopmotion program, which some can be found free on the internet. Then once you get all the sets and props ready, you can start filming. But, be advisable, use proper FPS(frames per second) so animation won't be choppy. Usually 12 FPS to 1 fps is good. Though, I'm doing it at a higher fps at 20 fps. Here are some ways to make flying people: 1. Use string, but best if you can hide the string in any sort of way or used colored string to hide into the background. Though, it's best to suspend with 2 pieces of string because if you use 1, your minifig will just go round and round X-D . 2. Bluescreen it. Use a small stick that sticks out(colorwise) and attach it to the minifig using stickytak or something sticky. Then in a editing program, just take the stick away and apply a background in replacement of the stick. 3. Bluescreen the minifig. By doing this, you are more freely to just cut away back ground around the minifig and then add the minifig in the frame shot. Splinter Ways: 1. same object as no. 1 listed above. 2. Photoshop it in. Draw some relatively wood like splinters and add them about in your frames, they'd be small, so pretty unoticable unless it was a plank of wood. Most of these are hard to accomplish, but best of luck to you Mr.Tiber! MUSIC AND SOUND: 1. A good sound program is good, for recording. Materials you'd need would be a microphone and whatever object the sound you need from.

Well. There are MANY ways of doing things. First off, which programs do you have/use to be dedicated to this stuff? Because I need to know what you have and don't have so I can explain much easier how to. I use at least 3-4 programs for this: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premire, Stop Motion Maker, and Smartmusic 9, for sounds and voices. Here is a good website to help explain some process, if not all. http://www.brickfilms.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page :-)

The interior looks nice, the nice row of cannons, fresh. Too bad that she'll go to Davy Jones. Why is it being taken apart?

This is a very nice and big ship. The color scheme looks good, though I do agree the green should be replaced with the red. But anyway, there is quite alot of detail in there that I really like, like the back parts of the stern. THe buidling in the middle, I think, is a passage to the interior. The interior is very nice as well *y* .

This is a very good design Mr.Phred! Using technic pieces for most of it was a good idea. The use of the axel connector pieces and ball-jointed pieces looks really good. Also, that anchor design looks good from what I can see :-) .

Oooooh, oh. Thanks. Besides more ships and fortresses, what can be added to the Lego Pirate Line?

OOC: Ok, well then, I guess thanks for the deletion of the post. Well, I better go back being a good little rebel prisoner and say nothing :-D . By " Oh and no post counts are affected by the deleting that ive done.", do you mean that by deleting the post, the post count is/isn't effected? I'm guessing not effected. Hehee, "Rebel Warrior........." Edit by Vader: Your post count stays the same, when you delete a post only what you wrote is deleted. So the count records the total number of posts that youve made including the deleted ones.......... Unless of course i change that :-P :-D

I know, but it would be good to ask BaronSat to see if we can use his excellent modle as an example for TLGA (The Lego Group Ambassadors, I just made that up)

Built Mint In Sealed Bag I believe :-) .

Transmission Begin:Hey. I managed to hide this radio, but I'm not sure if it'll run long. Anyway, I heard some rumours about a transport for me to a ship. But, on the knowledge on my location, I have no clue where I am, again. Some interrogaters came by yesterday, after my last transmission. They brought their mini-pokeball torture device with them. I've kept up strong and didn't say anything. Don't worry, I won't say a thin...*bwoop*..........Transmission Device Power Has Died

I have seen these sort of things before, it's really interesting. I haven't tried one myself though :-( .

I'm more refering to lego sets than the game. Also, Pirates and the Imperials have cannons and flintocks, as the Islanders have spears and not much advanced technology based on what the Pirates have. I don't think I've ever seen a lego set with an Islander with a gun? They could win, if their opposing forces used cutlasses or something not like a gun.

EDIT: To Make Sure no one gets confused anymore, I deleted this part of the post. :capn: MisterPhes, do you think we should inform BaronSat that we'd like to use his set as an example before we send it?